Sunday Late Night: Distractions in Class
There’s one very good reason why America’s elite opinion-makers, those in the pay of institutions designed to prop up the system that shovels increasingly larger shares of America’s wealth to the very wealthiest, spin ever more furiously to distract the attention of those whose small nest eggs, whether residential home values or 401(k)s, have shrunk or disappeared. Those of us left food-sensitive and housing-deprived by the vagaries of the Masters of the Universe cannot be allowed to focus on the real source of our own problems. Who did this to us? Why, there are many answers in the American narrative, you can choose! We are fed our diet of blame-shifted narratives to preserve the survival of this system, and the elites atop it.
There’s one very good reason why America’s elite opinion-makers, those in the pay of institutions designed to prop up the system that shovels increasingly larger shares of America’s wealth to the very wealthiest, spin ever more furiously to distract the attention of those whose small nest eggs, whether residential home values or 401(k)s, have shrunk or disappeared. Those of us left food-sensitive and housing-deprived by the vagaries of the Masters of the Universe cannot be allowed to focus on the real source of our own problems. Who did this to us? Why, there are many answers in the American narrative, you can choose! We are fed our diet of blame-shifted narratives to preserve the survival of this system, and the elites atop it.
Do you wonder why borrowers who lied on their loan applications are the culprits in the global economic collapse? Do you wonder why no one has been jailed for their role atop any of our corrupt enabling institutions? Are you curious why, suddenly and from many directions at once, public employees are to blame for the collapse-driven shrinkage of state and local government receipts?2
What does a teacher’s pension have to do with you, laid-off manufacturing line work?
Do you worry that our nation is less safe from unnamed and constantly shifting enemies? Do unending wars in faraway places puzzle you? Aren’t you then comforted with the glib pictures of dark-eyed enemies paraded before you for your fear-enabling pleasure? Isn’t it easier to dismiss any botheration about American citizens being snatched, assassinated or tortured if only a very few of them, kept far from view, look like you or your neighbors?
I'm Just Sayin!
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